SpaceX won a NASA contract Nov. 22 to launch an Earth science satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in 2021.
The award, with a total cost to NASA of $112 million, is for the launch of the Surface Water and Ocean ...

A principal in a venture capital fund whose investments include SpaceX has joined U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team for the Department of Defense.Trae Stephens. Credit: Founders fund ...

The transition team for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has named a congressional staffer and former NASA official to lead the “landing team” overseeing transition planning for the space agency.Chris Sh...

Anew report recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration do more to assist commercial spaceports in determining their insurance requirements, but stops short of calling for regulatory changes regarding c...

MDA Corp. intends to bring the same robotic chops to satellite servicing that it used to build Canadarm2, shown here moving the International Space Station’s Quest airlock into place in 2001. Credit: NASA
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Ex-im’s lending timeout was “Blessing in Disguise” for Fast-growing ABS
When the U.S. Congress shuttered the Ex-Im Bank in 2015, an untold number of commercial satellite orders stalled out or changed hands. AB...

Companies have been working for decades to make the vision of space as the “final frontier” a reality, and the last several years in particular have seen an increase in initiatives aimed at commercial space exp...

The incoming trump administration needs to maintain the momentum surrounding space-weather hazard Preparation.
Space weather has the potential to impact critical infrastructure in orbit and on the ground. Cre...

A memo to U.S. President-elect Trump about a critical national security issue
One of the most pressing national security issues facing the United States in the next five to 10 years is the vulnerability of its...

It’s been more than a quarter century since NASA last launched a dedicated Venus mission, the Magellan radar mapper. Could the key to winning funding for a new mission be… a hashtag? Well, it can’t hurt.

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€400M
The amount Eutelsat paid Russian Satellite Communications Co. after a French court ruled Nov. 23 that RSCC was not an arm of the Russian government. Former shareholders in the Russian...